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Proverbs 16

Prov. 16:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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ψCommit
galal (Hebrew #1556)
to roll (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: commit, remove, roll (away, down, together), run down, seek occasion, trust, wallow.
Pronounce: gaw-lal'
Origin: a primitive root
thy works
ma`aseh (Hebrew #4639)
an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
KJV usage: act, art, + bakemeat, business, deed, do(-ing), labor, thing made, ware of making, occupation, thing offered, operation, possession, X well, ((handy-, needle-, net-))work(ing, - manship), wrought.
Pronounce: mah-as-eh'
Origin: from 6213
unto the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
, and thy thoughts
machashabah (Hebrew #4284)
from 2803; a contrivance, i.e. (concretely) a texture, machine, or (abstractly) intention, plan (whether bad, a plot; or good, advice)
KJV usage: cunning (work), curious work, device(-sed), imagination, invented, means, purpose, thought.
Pronounce: makh-ash-aw-baw'
Origin: or machashebeth {makh-ash-eh'-beth}
shall be established
kuwn (Hebrew #3559)
properly, to be erect (i.e. stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix, prepare, apply), or figurative (appoint, render sure, proper or prosperous)
KJV usage: certain(-ty), confirm, direct, faithfulness, fashion, fasten, firm, be fitted, be fixed, frame, be meet, ordain, order, perfect, (make) preparation, prepare (self), provide, make provision, (be, make) ready, right, set (aright, fast, forth), be stable, (e-)stablish, stand, tarry, X very deed.
Pronounce: koon
Origin: a primitive root
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Roll,
Psa. 37:5• 5Roll thy way upon Jehovah;{HR}Trust also in him, and he will do [it]. (Psa. 37:5)
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Commit.
Heb. Roll. thy works.
Job 5:8• 8For my part, then, I would turn to God (El),{HR}And to God (Elohim) would I commit my cause, (Job 5:8)
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Psa. 37:4‑5• 4Delight thyself also in Jehovah,{HR}And he will give thee the requests of thy heart.
 5Roll thy way upon Jehovah;{HR}Trust also in him, and he will do [it]. (Psa. 37:4‑5)
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Psa. 55:22• 22Cast upon Jehovah thy burden ,{HR}And he will sustain thee;{HR}He will never suffer the righteous to be moved. (Psa. 55:22)
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Matt. 6:25‑34• 25For this reason I say to you, Be not anxious for your life what ye should eat and what ye should drink, nor yet for your body what ye should put on. Is not the life more than the food, and the body more than the raiment?
 26Look at the birds of the heavens, that they sow not, nor reap, nor gather into barns, and your heavenly Father nourisheth them. Are ye not more excellent than they?
 27And which of you by anxiety can add to his stature one cubit?
 28And why are ye anxious about raiment? Consider the lilies of the field how they grow: they toil not, nor yet spin;
 29yet I say to you, that not even Solomon in all his glory put on like one of these.
 30But if God doth so clothe the grass of the field, being today and tomorrow cast into the oven, how much more you, O ye of little faith?
 31Be not therefore anxious, saying, What shall we eat? or what shall we drink? or what shall we put on?
 32For all these things the Gentiles seek after; for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
 33But seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
 34Be not careful for the morrow for the morrow will be careful about itself: sufficient for the day is the evil thereof. (Matt. 6:25‑34)
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Luke 12:22• 22And he said to his disciples, For this cause I say unto you, Be not careful for life, what ye shall eat; nor for the body, what ye shall put on. (Luke 12:22)
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Phil. 4:6• 6Be anxious about nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. (Phil. 4:6)
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1 Peter 5:7• 7having cast all your anxiety upon him, because he careth for you. (1 Peter 5:7)
thy thoughts.
Job 22:28• 28And thou shalt decree a thing, and it is established to thee,{HR}And light shall shine on thy ways. (Job 22:28)
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Isa. 7:5‑7• 5Inasmuch as Syria hath taken evil counsel against thee, Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, saying,
 6Let us go up against Judah, and harass it, and make a breach therein for us, and set up a king therein, the son of Tabeal;
 7thus saith the Lord Jehovah, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass. (Isa. 7:5‑7)
• The word “commit” might be rendered “roll.” He who rolls his affairs over upon the Lord, will find Him ever ready to take charge of them all, and to carry them on to a proper completion and establishment. But it must be borne in mind that if I thus commit all to Him, I no longer choose for myself as to what the outcome should be. (“Proverbs Sixteen” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Commitg thy works unto Jehovah, and thy thoughts shall be establishedh.

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "Roll." see Ps. 37.5.
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Or "accomplished."

W. Kelly Translation

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Commit thy works to Jehovah,{HR}And thy thoughts shall be established.